Frank Dolan will host a Sports Performance Information Night on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at Sports and Fitness Performance, located at 4 Cedar Avenue in Islip, N.Y. from 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. With all the sports performance information out there, it can be difficult to know what is right for high school athletes.

We’ve all purchased racquets that have had the manufacturer’s logo painted on the strings. Does this add any excitement or fun to your game? The answer is no. It won’t make you play like Roger Federer or Serena Williams.

I’m asked many times how power is achieved in tennis shots. We see on TV many players on tour with amazing power. While of the world’s best players are bigger, faster and stronger than in years past, and technology has improved the racquets, the answer to generating power is still in the timing of two areas during the contact of the shot, weight and snap.

BOLT Sports LLC, NY has introduced two new tennis racquet models, a 12-pack racquet bag and related apparel into its product line to coincide with the U.S. Open. The new racquet models, the B98.light and the B100.light, feature ZipStrip, BOLT’s spring-suspension design.

Rob Delman, Gil Koppel and Peter Simel, Masters Tennis Co-Chairmen of the 19th Maccabiah USA Organizing Committee, and Head Coach Roy Kozupsky are actively seeking the best Jewish tennis players from across the country to try out for the Maccabiah team.

Does your schedule make it difficult to play on a USTA League team? Are you looking for people to play with, but don't know where to go? Do you want to work on your singles game, without affecting your USTA rating? USTA’s Flex League may be for you.

The USTA Eastern Long Island Region has announced that the newest issue of its newsletter, On the Ball: News From LI, is now available online at its Web site, www.ustaonlongisland.com/newsletter.pdf.

Eleven teams from USTA Eastern have advanced to the National Championship round of the largest adult recreational tennis league in the world by winning the USTA League Eastern Section Championships, held Aug.10-12 and Aug. 17-19 in the Capital Region of New York.

The Rally for Hope Tennis Party, a tennis charity event in support of The Hope House, has been scheduled for Friday, Aug. 24, from 7:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. at the Blue Point Eastern Athletic Club. The event will raise money for Hope House, a bi-county, not for profit, community-based ministry dedicated to providing comprehensive and competent residential and counseling assistance to thousands of adolescents, individuals and families in crisis.

Ed Wolfarth of Syosset, N.Y. received the Hy Zausner Lifetime Achievement in Tennis Award from the USTA Eastern Long Island Region at its Annual Awards Dinner in May. This award is the Long Island Region’s highest honor.

Tuesday-Sunday, Aug. 9-12 marks the First Annual Summer Charity Tournament, a fundraiser for Cure Mommy's Breast Cancer to be held at Long Beach Tennis Center.

Tennis Channel will cover nine Emirates Airline U.S. Open Series events during the seven weeks between now and the U.S. Open, offering more than 100 match hours from the annual North American summer hard-court season.